{"id":417828,"date":"2026-06-19T06:00:20","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T06:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/?p=417828"},"modified":"2026-06-19T06:00:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T06:00:20","slug":"davies-on-canada-bench-for-key-qatar-world-cup-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/2026\/06\/19\/davies-on-canada-bench-for-key-qatar-world-cup-clash\/","title":{"rendered":"Davies on Canada bench for key Qatar World Cup clash"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">VANCOUVER, June 18 : Canada&#8217;s Alphonso Davies will start on the bench when his side take on Qatar in their second World Cup Group B match at BC Place in Vancouver on Thursday. Qatar coach Julen Lopetegui again left record goalscorer Almoez Ali on \u200bthe bench, naming an unchanged side from the one that drew 1-1 with Switzerland.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2022 Davies has struggled with a hamstring injury recently but was declared fit on Wednesday by coach Jesse Marsch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2022 Cyle Larin, who came off the bench to score Canada&#8217;s equaliser in their 1-1 draw with Bosnia &amp; Herzegovina, starts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2022 Tani Oluwaseyi and&nbsp;Liam Millar drop to the Canada bench, replaced by Larin and Ali Ahmed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2022 Boualem Khoukhi, who scored Qatar&#8217;s goal against Switzerland, will again captain the side.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lineups:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Canada: Maxime Crepeau, Alistair \u200bJohnston, Luc \u200bDe Fougerolles, \u2060Derek Cornelius, Richie Laryea; Stephen Eustaquio, Ismael Kone, Ali Ahmed; Tajon Buchanan, Jonathan David, \u200bCyle Larin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Qatar: Mahmoud Abunada, Pedro Miguel, Issa Laye, \u200bJassem Gaber, Edmilson Junior, Akram Afif, \u200bAyoub \u2060Aloui, Homam Ahmed, Yusuf Abdurisag, Boualem Khoukhi, Assim Madibo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VANCOUVER, June 18 : Canada&#8217;s Alphonso Davies will start on the bench when his side take on Qatar in their second World Cup Group B match at BC Place in Vancouver on Thursday. Qatar coach Julen Lopetegui again left record goalscorer Almoez Ali on \u200bthe bench, naming an unchanged side from the one that drew [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12903],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-417828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-12903"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=417828"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":417829,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417828\/revisions\/417829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}